Libby's Actual Birthday

On September 8, 2011 (at precisely 3:41 pm), Libby officially turned one! CRAZY! I guess what they say is true - time flies when you're having fun! ;) In her short little life Libby has managed to develop a knack for the extreme when it comes to holidays. Her birthday was no different. At about 3:30pm the power went out all way from Mexico to Arizona to (wouldn't you know it?!?) Laguna Niguel, CA. We were without power for over 11 hours and it certainly made for a VERY memorable birthday!

The power outage didn't put too much of a crimp into our afternoon plans since we were already planning on spending some time at the pool.
It was a great reprieve from the heat and we had a wonderful time - Grammy even joined us for the fun!

Some post-pool lounging before heading home for a nice long nap before dinner.

We had originally planned on going out to celebrate and didn't think much of it. Well, it turned out that the power went out up through our city, but not the neighboring ones, so we headed to Aliso Viejo for dinner....So did everybody else. My mom was smart enough to call ahead, but we still had to wait 20 min to get in (a heck of a lot better than the hour and half most people were waiting!). Yeah, you could say they were severely understaffed for the onslaught of craziness.

After dinner we headed back to my parents' place for present opening. We got out just about every candle in the house for the big event!

Here she is surrounded by loot and light - she was loving it!

It was pretty hard to see things well, so as soon as she'd open a present we'd take a picture and then look at the camera to see what it really looked like. It was certainly a fun way to do presents. Like I said, she's got a knack for unique! ;) Happy birthday, my Angel!